WayV’s Ten has a brand new mini album out later this month and — like seemingly everybody in Okay-pop — has teased it with a pre-release single. Pre-releases typically find yourself being greater hits than the precise title tracks, as artists need to come out of the gate with their strongest materials first. Bambola takes a unique method, eschewing chart potential for experimentation. It units the stage for a musically bold undertaking.

If I had been to explain Bambola succinctly, it’s like a typical Okay-pop music thrown in a blender till it’s shredded and put again collectively once more. Lots of the items are within the “fallacious” place, but the construction nonetheless (barely) is sensible as a music. It may be tough to get this steadiness appropriate. Too “experimental” and we lose the elements that make pop music nice, but too secure and the music feels extra like a gimmick than a press release. Total, Bambola hits a satisfying center. I want it was a bit hookier, however its fixed barrage of sound is compelling in its personal approach.

For me, this sort of music works finest when reducing its frantic nature with an oasis of melodic perfection. Although it’s not almost as bizarre as Bambola, Xia Junsu’s 2016 single Rock The World is a good instance of find out how to execute this properly. The “yaba daba” refrain right here doesn’t work for me and solely heightens the music’s extra obnoxious components. I’m rather more within the dramatic pre-chorus, which hints at a extra strong sequence of hooks.

Grade: C+